Life is all about momentum. And right now the pace of change is in the US, where the American dream is alive and energised.
Almost overnight the Trump administration has taken a flamethrower to government waste, the gender lie, the green scam and the Marxist rot swamping American institutions. Fauci is exiled, the likes of Jay Bhattacharya and Robert F. Kennedy Jr have been drafted, and positivity is abound.
There has been a spring in the step of the nation since November 6 - the morning after the night before.
Poetically, the sun pierced New York brightly as I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge just hours after Donald Trump and his team of Avengers stormed to one of the most emphatic presidential election wins in history.
I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge just hours after Donald Trump and his team of Avengers stormed to one of the most emphatic presidential election wins in history
Ben Leo
Walking across the bridge that morning felt different, writes Ben Leo
Ben Leo
It was the first bit of sunshine I’d felt on my skin since arriving in America that week. It had been cold, grey and glum - the best description of the Biden administration’s stain on America and how the Democrats must have been feeling after not only a botched four years in power but an election campaign and coup of Joe Biden that ended messier than an OJ Simpson date night.
Walking across the bridge that morning felt different. And it wasn’t just that I was happy Trump had won. Smiles on faces were wider, the eyes of grinners beamed brighter, and cars flew by honking horns with the stars and stripes flapping proudly in the wind.
New York, remember, is a Democrat stronghold as blue as the vast ocean that separates our great nations. Now though there is no shame on the streets of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn or the Bronx that for many, their man is Donald Trump. And with that brings a whole new hope and optimism for the US.
Britain has an opportunity to channel that same energy and abundance. It is a misconception at best and a lie at worst to accuse Trump of not caring for our isles. His mother, of course, was born in Scotland and Donald’s own admiration and love for the Royal Family is no secret.
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Smiles on faces were wider after Trump's win
Ben Leo
Why then does our Labour Government, which appears to have the foresight of a Texas salamander, choose to get into bed with European Union dinosaurs who haven’t yet clocked that the world is moving on without them?
From the realisation that Net Zero is a scam and The Science isn’t settled on climate change, to re-building relations with adversaries and enforcing mass deportations of illegal immigrants, change is happening afoot across the pond.
Once again, anything is possible in America. The demonic forces of the Democrat party who mutilated children and told them they were born in the wrong body have been doused in holy Maga water - banished to the dark corner of hell they belong.
The European Union Dinosaurs, however, are still pontificating about online hate speech and threatening fines and regulations on tech companies who dare operate in their jurisdiction. Meanwhile, Reform is leading polls in the UK, AfD looks set for election victory in Germany and the so-called ‘far-right’ - or, just right, as I like to call them - are on the march all across Europe.
JD Vance 'exposed the stark and disturbing reality that European leaders are simply too arrogant and too entitled to see that their empire is falling around them'
Ben Leo
The Vice President’s no-holds-barred speech at the Munich Security Conference exposed the stark and disturbing reality that European leaders are simply too arrogant and too entitled to see that their empire is falling around them. Rumours continue to swirl that the US will even withdraw from Nato.
The only thought crimes taking place on the continent are happening in the gravy-train-funded halls of the European Commission and Parliament. The game is up - but European leaders who still think men can have cervixes and women penises are too busy filing their generous expenses to realise.
Keir Starmer had a clear choice to make in the wake of Trump’s inauguration last month. Side with the world’s biggest superpower, get with the times and hang on the coattails of a bright new dawn for the West. Prosperity, clarity and optimism for the future. He could finally shed himself of the riddling anxiety that so clearly dominates his face and eyes.
But the Prime Minister has chosen to stick with the old guard. From sending Labour activists to campaign for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, choosing Trump haters David Lammy as Foreign Secretary and Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, surrendering the Chagos Islands despite huge taxpayer expense and in clear defiance of Washington, and now threatening to send British troops to Ukraine at a time Trump is making a deal to end the bloodshed… Davos Man Starmer has chosen darkness over the light.
America will move on without us
Ben Leo
America will move on without us. The truth is, our failed career politicians who have led Britain into the gutter over the past 20 years means they probably won’t miss us all that much.
But when the powers that be do finally realise that the US has taken a bright and bold path to prosperity, I predict in some 10 to 15 years, we will have missed the bulk of one of the biggest economic, social and political bull runs the West has ever seen.
America is so back.
Britain, I hope, soon.
